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 "title": "Fairyland",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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 "book": "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems",
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  "year": 1829,
  "venue": "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829)",
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Poe)",
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    "text": "Dim vales⁠—and shadowy floods⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And cloudy-looking woods,",
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   {
    "text": "Whose forms we can’t discover",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the tears that drip all over.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Huge moons there wax and wane⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Again⁠—again⁠—again⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Every moment of the night⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Forever changing places⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And they put out the star-light",
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   {
    "text": "With the breath from their pale faces.",
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   {
    "text": "About twelve by the moon-dial",
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   {
    "text": "One more filmy than the rest",
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   {
    "text": "(A kind which, upon trial,",
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   {
    "text": "They have found to be the best)",
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   {
    "text": "Comes down⁠—still down⁠—and down",
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    "text": "With its centre on the crown",
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   {
    "text": "Of a mountain’s eminence,",
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    "text": "While its wide circumference",
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   {
    "text": "In easy drapery falls",
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   {
    "text": "Over hamlets, over halls,",
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   {
    "text": "Wherever they may be⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "O’er the strange woods⁠—o’er the sea⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Over spirits on the wing⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Over every drowsy thing⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And buries them up quite",
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   {
    "text": "In a labyrinth of light⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And then, how deep!⁠—O, deep!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Is the passion of their sleep.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In the morning they arise,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And their moony covering",
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   {
    "text": "Is soaring in the skies,",
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   {
    "text": "With the tempests as they toss,",
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   {
    "text": "Like⁠—almost anything⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Or a yellow Albatross.",
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   {
    "text": "They use that moon no more",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For the same end as before⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Videlicet a tent⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Which I think extravagant:",
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   {
    "text": "Its atomies, however,",
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    "text": "Into a shower dissever,",
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   {
    "text": "Of which those butterflies,",
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    "text": "Of Earth, who seek the skies,",
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    "text": "And so come down again",
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    "text": "(Never-contented things!)",
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   {
    "text": "Have brought a specimen",
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    "text": "Upon their quivering wings.",
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